Urban Love
Frigid cement,
hitting up bricks pathologically in love.
Emboldened brains of stone,
as expensive as geometric glass,
animated by the architecture of lack:
Isn’t this the burden of non-synthetic sex?
© 2023 Giorgia Pavlidou
Nudity
This naked brain,
though part of the body
is divorced from it.
This bare body,
though part of the brain
exists uniquely in the nudity of the head.
Even the head,
extant only in the braininess of the brain.
All brains seem bare.
Their bareness smiles & gloats,
when I heedlessly try
& dress the headless bodies
in which the brain dwells so well.
© 2023 Giorgia Pavlidou
Giorgia Pavlidou is an American writer and painter intermittently living in Greece and the US. She received her MA in Urdu Literature from Lucknow University, India, and MFA from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her work recently appeared or is forthcoming in Caesura, Maintenant Dada Journal, Puerto del Sol, Clockwise Cat, Ocotillo Review, Philosophical Egg, Entropy, and Moon & Sun Magazine. Additionally, Trainwreck Press launched her chapbook inside the black hornet’s mind-tunnel in 2021, and Anvil Tongue Books her full-length book of poems and paintings, Haunted by the Living - Fed by the Dead in May 2022.
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